In a recent programme of “Pipes and Drums,” the narrator told an amusing story which attaches to the 9th Glasgow Battalion Home Guard Pipe Band. One evening, as this unit of Post Office workers was about to disperse after their usual practice, a small body of uniformed men was observed marching through the Glasgow streets. With that hearty helpfulness for which the city is renowned, one of the pipers approached the N.C.O. in charge and said: “I say, if you’ll just halt your draft for a moment, I’ll get a piper to play you to the station.” “Well,” replied the sergeant, doubtfully, “it’s awful good of you, but I’m thinking it would be a wee bit irregular. Ye see, these chaps are no’ a draft; they’re under detention, and they’re no’ gaun to the station, they’re gaun to the clink!”’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1943, Page 3
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